Dr Oliver Clarkson

Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, especially Wordsworth; questions of style; inexpressibility; negativity; repetition; rhyme; allusion; revision. Broader interests include the history of close reading in theory and in practice; the legacies of seventeenth-century poetry; the relationship between letters and verse; the language of nature poetry; and certain deconstructive readings of verse.

1660 to the present (Prelims 3, 4, and 1b; FHS 4 and 5). MSt courses on 'The Sonnet, 1770-1870' and 'Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1797-1817'. Co-convenor of the 1830-1914 MSt B course (covering bibliography, theories of text, history of the book, and manuscript studies).

Publications

The Disappointment of Wordsworth's Letters

2020

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Romanticism and the Letter

Wordsworth's Negative Way

2017

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Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism

Romantic Rhyme and the Airs that Stray

2017

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Romanticism

Wordsworth's Lyric Moments (1802)

2015

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Essays in Criticism

Glimpses of Tranquillity: A Reading of The Ruined Cottage

2014

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Charles Lamb Bulletin

Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Source for Wordsworth's River in Book IX of The Prelude